Young Architect

MAY 14, 2022

Studying design from at one of the many great architecture programs is, in my (admittedly, biased) opinion, one of the greatest educations a person could get as well as an amazing industry to work in. Architecture School. Having an architecture license is not a prerequisite to having a successful career in architecture.

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Architect Education Architecture School Contract 92

Young Architect

APRIL 20, 2022

This exam is all about programming, site analysis, and zoning/codes. Think: Investigation (not design). Project Planning and Design Exam (PPD). Now you’ll start moving into design and schematic designs of sites and buildings. Schematic Design (SD) : Life safety and accessibility (all vignettes).

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Contract Schematic Design Management Construction 90

EntreArchitect

JULY 18, 2017

I tell clients that we could design a successful project with nothing more than a scope of work and site plan. I ask them again to state their expected budget as part of my Pre-Design Client Questionnaire to confirm their expectations in writing. We then prepare Schematic Designs based on those expectations.

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Small Firm Management Firms Project 52

Young Architect

MAY 2, 2022

This is the strategy that is most commonly followed: After completing the Pro-Practice Exams, most people move onto Programming and Analysis (PA) next, before moving onto Project Planning and Design (PPD) Project Development and Documentation (PDD) . PA is all about understanding the problem the design is going to solve.

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Contract Information Management Education 94

EntreArchitect

MARCH 24, 2013

I tell clients that we could design a successful project with nothing more than a scope of work and site plan. I ask them again to state their expected budget as part of my Pre-Design Client Questionnaire to confirm their expectations in writing. We then prepare Schematic Designs based on those expectations.

Management 52

Management Project Schematic Design Architect 52

Community Architect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The project I now remembered had made a lasting impression on me since it was my first assignment when my then prolific boss, Heinz Egenhofer hired me for my first job out of architecture school. The high-school (German: Gymnasium) is located in the midsize town of Reutlingen, Germany, about 40 minutes from our office.

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Community Architect

JUNE 9, 2022

My friend and Morgan architecture professor Cristina Murphy who also does teaching stints at Virginia Tech and the Technische Universiteit in Delf t (Netherlands) has tailored her studios around this question. She wrote this guest contribution describing her approach to teaching equity in architecture school.

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